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by n4r9 1y ago
I'm not trying to suppress anything, but I want people to be aware. Conversely, I would gladly point out that an article on mathematics written by Terence Tao is likely to be high quality and insightful. Such guides are helpful in a wo
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Why "evil"? I'm pretty confident they're heavily (if not fully) relying on LLM-generated text. Maybe they're drafting it themselves first and getting an LLM to refine. I found some recent articles by the same auth
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by n4r9 1y ago
Identifying AI is useful to others. Especially in academic topics (where it is less reliable) or where text lacks a disclaimer. I do so without meaning to criticise AI itself. I'm sorry if this is a sensitive topic for you, but I think
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by n4r9 1y ago
I did say it provides a decent summary. I write my own posts except where I explicitly copypaste a response from an LLM. In fact I just asked Claude Code and ChatGPT about the Thresh X2 algorithm and they couldn't even descibe it to me
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by n4r9 1y ago
The linked medium post is clearly written by an AI but I think it does a decent job at summarising the results. Glancing through the paper on ArXiv, it feels like they've cleverly combined speed-up techniques from variations of Dijkstr
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by n4r9 1y ago
My hunch would be to stick with Dijsktra (or A*). There's a bunch of additional routines here which appear to improve behaviour as the number of nodes becomes large, but very likely lead to large coefficients in the complexity.
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Do you think you can apply the word "talent" to someone who instinctively knows how to the various exercises should work, how to use good form to maximise muscle tension and minimise injury risk, how to vary the exercises to hit d
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by n4r9 1y ago
I mean, it's going to be steroids plus genetics plus a massive amount of effort. Few people can look like that after one year of lifting, no matter how hard they try.
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Fair point, that is a difference. Transitioning is a significant change and not to be taken lightly. That said, fertility can be preserved by freezing sperm or eggs. It's offered on the NHS as part of the gender transition process.
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> women's rights to single-sex spaces is about boundaries, consent and protection I agree that these are important things, and there's a discussion to be had about it. There's an argument for some safe spaces such as women
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The evidence, e.g. > Current policy debates regarding transgender people’s access to restrooms and other gendered facilities are predicated on narratives about protecting the safety and privacy of women’s spaces. These narratives lack ev
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We've excluded trans women from somewhere they don't pose a threat, forcing them into spaces where they are under considerable threat.
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I'm not sold on the food delivery front. In the UK you used to be able to just ring up a local restaurant and order a free local delivery, especially indian, chinese, kebab, pizza, and chip shops. My family did it once a week in the 90
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by n4r9 1y ago
Thanks for the info. I remember having dinner in Cambridge with a friend couple in what must have been the early 2010s; the woman was involved in local Labour politics but both were very opinionated about single-sex spaces, and there had be
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by n4r9 1y ago
That may be what I was thinking of. An AI-assisted search suggests I may have conflated that passage with this one from Keep the Aspidistra flying : > Over and over again he tried, quite vainly, to explain to them why he would not yield
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by n4r9 1y ago
Interesting... where are you referring to when you say "this part of the world"? Britain itself, or Ireland?
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How would you describe the transphobia of the early noughties? For those that might have been too young to pick up on it at the time.
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Another recent classic case of this is the revelations that Uber were targeting law enforcement based on user behaviour, and refusing to offer them rides in areas where they were breaking regulations. I mentioned this at some point last yea
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> Critics circulated a clip from the “Dead End: Paranormal Park” in which Barney Guttman, the series’ protagonist, comes out to his friend Norma as transgender. “I’m trans, Norma,” Barney says. “Being here, it’s like a whole new place. I
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by n4r9 1y ago
It's well-established scientifically that lockdowns and other non-pharmaceutical measures reduced transmission and deaths considerably. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abd9338 https://w
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I'm not sure about Maps to be honest, but that sort of glitch is a strong indicator that they're just snapping to the nearest current road rather than doing proper routing calculations. My Toyota has a speed limit symbol on the da
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by n4r9 1y ago
Yeah, this sounds like a way to "smooth" the GPS trail to remove anomalies quickly, without paying attention to the road network. The problem of snapping a noisy GPS trail to the road network is known as map-matching. Good map-mat
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Perhaps but that doesn't say anything about which way round the causality goes.
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One of George Orwell's essays (I forget which) talks about how writing only suits people who feel compelled to do it, even to the point of starvation if it doesn't reap an income. When I left academia in the mid 2010's I had
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They have; it's the deregulation of industry and the disempowering of anti-trust from Reagan onwards. Unfortunately it's a hard sell to undo these. But some progress is being made on antitrust.
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I agree. There has been over-reach, especially between 2005 and 2016. The Robin Hood airport incident is a good example. But I'm not convinced we're sliding into authoritarianism. Or at least, if we are sliding into authoritaria
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by n4r9 1y ago
Might not be what you're referring to, but: a couple of months ago a user posted this comment [0] claiming the linked video showed police offices arresting and threatening to jail an old grandmother in the middle of the night, simply f
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I honestly don't know if that's true or not. But I haven't seen any compelling evidence to support it. The figures being lobbed around by the likes of Tommy Robinson are deeply harmful to the debate because they are both a) c
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The full wording of the text is: > A person is guilty of an offence if, for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to another, he— > [F1(a)sends by means of a public electronic communications network, a me
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Why?

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